The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural PerspectivesRuth Formanek Routledge, 13 พ.ค. 2013 - 320 หน้า In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current biomedical, endocrinological, culutral, and psychological perspectives. Ample attention is give to the psychosocial influences on menopause and to cross-cultural variations in the experience of, and life adjustments that follow, menopause. Societal and familial attitudes toward menopausal women are also explored through an examination of women in classical and modern literature. Clinical contributions review psychoanalytic perspectives on menopause, elucidate the individual meanings of the menopausal experience uncovered in therapy, and consider male views of menopausal women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume remedy the scant attention menopause has heretofore received in the psychological and psychotherapeutic literature. They not only explore the range of issues associated with menopause, but address these issues in the context of the various myths and superstitions about menopause that have endured over the centuries. Essential reading for students of human development, gender issues, and women's studies, The Meanings of Menopause is, for helping professionals, an invaluable source book on a life event fraught with psychological significance. |
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... patients , students , friends , and relatives who shared their experiences and points of view with me . Eleanor Starke Kobrin of The Analytic Press has been a most astute and intuitive editor , who has improved the readability of all ...
... patients about their menopausal experiences , led me to see the pressing need for more information about menopause . We hope that this book will calm the apprehensions of premenopausal women and their families and inform practitioners ...
... patients and overlooked the ma- jority of women without serious symptoms , and that , most important of all , a postmenopausal woman could still lead a productive life . In chapter 2 , Susan Bell examines the intellectual roots of the ...
... patients bring to therapy . In chapter 10 , Marilyn Maxwell offers a literary perspective . Owing to almost universal taboos , menopause was seldom treated explicitly as a central theme in Western fiction prior to the 20th century ...
... patients . Moreover , 19th - century attitudes were strongly influenced by the views of religious " purity " tracts . Thus it is in the context of middle- class aspirations that perceptions of women and sexuality during this period must ...
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II Psychosocial CrossCultural and Research Perspectives | 78 |
III Endocrinology Clinical and Experiential Studies and Literary Aspects | 176 |
Author Index | 297 |
Subject Index | 311 |
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The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2013 |